Essays on art, politics and life from the best-selling author of Gomorrah
Roberto Saviano was born in Naples in 1979. As a journalist, he writes for La Repubblica and L'Espresso, as well as for many newspapers around the world. After the publication of Gomorrah (now translated into forty languages) and its subsequent film adaptation, he received several death threats, obliging the Italian government to provide him with twenty-four-hour protection. He has been living in hiding since 2006. In 2011 he was awarded the PEN/Pinter Prize.
It is good to be reminded of the raw bravery of the Savianos of
this world and to salute them for sacrifices they have made in
their challenges to power.
*Guardian*
I feel humble, almost insignificant, faced with the dignity and the
courage of the writer and journalist Roberto Saviano, the man who
has mastered the art of living.
*José Saramago*
We must thank Roberto Saviano for having returned to literature the
ability to open eyes and minds.
*Mario Vargas Llosa*
Its tone is angry and urgent ... the essays in Beauty and the
Inferno are in some sense a celebration of bravery and an
expression of rage against corruption and cowardice.
*Times Literary Supplement*
A perceptive and sympathetic critic and reader ... Saviano writes
very well ... what he has to say demands to be read. Like Primo
Levi, his testimony pricks our conscience, tests our resolve, makes
us examine ourselves ... At once deeply disturbing and
illuminating.
*Scottish Sunday Herald*
He never pulls his punches, his message is incredibly important,
and the facts he includes-such as the increase in cancer rates due
to the illegal dumping of toxic waste-are like bombshells.
*Sunday Times*
In his essay about [Anna] Politkovskaya, he writes: 'I do not care
about beautiful stories that cannot be bothered with the blood of
our times. I want to smell the rot of politics and the stench of
business.' He achieves that and more in his own work.
*Sunday Business Post*
A beautiful object, from the surface through to its
depths....Saviano's confidence and sheer bulldozing coherence could
serve as inspiration to all writers, both of fiction and
journalism, as the path around weak speechifying and dutiful
responses. Read Saviano and feel hope.
*Bookslut*
Always passionate...Saviano's commitment to his subjects draws the
reader in...This is a strong collection from a brave and keen-eyed
reporter.
*Publishers Weekly*
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